mooggeek Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Yesterday I picked up a 200 GB PATA hard drive. My problem is Disk Utility only sees 128 GB. Windows and Linux sees the full 200 GB, the Disk Utility in the installers for 10.4.8 JaS AMD/Intel and Uphuck 10.4.9 do not. I've tried every setting I can think of in BIOS with no luck and I can find little information on this problem in the forums. Does anyone have any insight into this problem? Here is my setup: mobo: ASUS m2n-sli chipset: nForce 570 CPU:AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Drive: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 200gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonkyfresh Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Same problem here, my HD is a Samsung Spinpoint of 250 Gb ATA but showing up as 128 Gb Kinda annoyin'! Can anyone help us? Or has an idea where to look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunknbass Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 go into disk utility and partition the hd with 1 partition so it uses mbr. it helps to wipe the drive first sometimes. same thing happened to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonkyfresh Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 HI, Thanks for the reply but nop I've tried this and Nothing. And I can not wipe the first drive for the moment. But I did it before Installing OSX on my first drive. And It did not change... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeeks Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 i got the same issue, WD 250gig only seen as 128gig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 "Drive: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 200gb". Impossible, or a mistake in specification. It must be >ATA133 to address 200gb. It sounds like you're all hitting the limit of ATA100, whether that is in hardware (you have old motherboards) or the software/driver is mistaken. Perhaps you're all using PATA rather than SATA, and the PATA driver is confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonkyfresh Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 "Drive: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 200gb". Impossible, or a mistake in specification. It must be >ATA133 to address 200gb. It sounds like you're all hitting the limit of ATA100, whether that is in hardware (you have old motherboards) or the software/driver is mistaken. Perhaps you're all using PATA rather than SATA, and the PATA driver is confused. Holy {censored}, I think the problem IS definitely the ATA100 ! But my bios does not allow me to change such a thing (I think) Does this would work http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=16457 since I have a SIS chipset... Because I'm sick for the week end of installing/crashing my system ! I'm still looking for a way to get hardware info in detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 I had to insert my dev id into appleviaata.kext to get osx to see more than 128gb on my pata drives, and speed was like 1mb/s before the fix too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonkyfresh Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 There you go. The driver is identifying the hardware as insufficient for ATA133, so you need to tell it what the hardware is so it knows the capability. Or go SATA if you can. That's always nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris935 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I had to insert my dev id into appleviaata.kext to get osx to see more than 128gb on my pata drives, and speed was like 1mb/s before the fix too. Where do you find the dev id for your hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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